32-year-old arrested over Twitter abuse

A 32-year-old man has been arrested in Bristol in connection to allegations of threats against Stella Creasy and Caroline Criado-Perez on Twitter.

The arrest comes amid a continued row over Twitter's responsibility to protect its female users from violent misogynistic abuse on the social media site.

"Detectives from the MPS [Metropolitan police service] have this morning, 7 August, arrested a 32-year-old-man, on suspicion of committing an offence under the Protection of Harassment Act, 1997," Scotland Yard said in a statement.

"He was arrested at an address in Bristol by officers from the MPS police central e-crime unit as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations relating to threats made on Twitter."